Three regional councils and one city council do not publish the decisions of the sessions on their websites and prohibit journalists and the public from attending meetings, arguing this with quarantine restrictions due to COVID-19. We are talking about the regional councils of Odessa, Ternopil and Poltava regions and the city council of Poltava, reports the Movement "

Analysts of a public organization conducted monitoring and found that some meetings of local councils are held behind closed doors and without announcement to the public and journalists. In particular, some local governments have stopped publishing draft decisions or the results of roll call voting or the conclusions of standing committees on their websites.. Thus, residents of cities or regions learn the decisions already made and cannot influence the situation in any way if they disagree with them..

In general, among the urban councils of regional centers, the Chernivtsi Rada is the most open, and the worst situation is in Ivano-Frankivsk and Zaporozhye. At the same time, the Rada of Kyiv is only half open.

As for the regional council, in contrast to the city council, the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council came out on top and shared it with the regional council of Lviv. At the same time, the Rada of the Chernihiv region is the most closed today..

At the same time, the Ternopil Regional Council does not even respond to information requests - the body said that, by order of the chairman, they would be happy to answer, as provided by law, five days later... after the war ends. The Nikolaev regional council, despite the destroyed building and constant shelling, works almost fully. Also, the most complete information is available on the website of the Nikolaev OR.

If we talk about the work of the Kyiv and Kharkov regional councils, they answered only a month after the request, and the regional councils of Poltava, Kharkiv, Ternopil, Odessa regions generally ignored them.

Recall that for two years now there has been a restriction on the access of journalists to the Verkhovna Rada. There are a number of restrictions in parliament regarding not only visits to the legislature by journalists, but also information about the work of people's deputies. Since the beginning of the war, the agenda of the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada is also not reported, as well as the exact place and time of the meeting itself..